The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Cryptojacking, as defined by the Federal Trade Commission , is the use of JavaScript code to capture cryptocurrencies in users’ browsers without asking permission. Bilogorskiy: Before 2013 a lot of malware was focused on spam, DDoS and monetizing through malicious advertising and ad fraud. Bilogorskiy: Exactly. It was insane.

Cryptocurrency 176

Cryptocurrency Passwords Ransomware Malware 176

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unbeknownst to Ika at the time, his Pustota forum also had been completely hacked that week, and a copy of its database shared with this author. Much of my reporting on Vrublevsky’s cybercrime empire came from several years worth of internal ChronoPay emails and documents that were leaked online in 2010 and 2011.

Cybercrime 225

Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 225

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault.

Malware 138

Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 138

Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns).

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Malware DNS Encryption Banking 47